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{{trope}}
Alice is a wizard, an [[Un
The trait is always something the character considers herself to ''be'', not something she's considering herself to believe in: If it's her beliefs that get scorned but she keeps her faith in them, she will see the scorners as bad instead of seeing herself as bad. Let's say she eventually gets [[Driven to Suicide]]: If it is out of self-hatred then it is this trope, but if it is because she can't stand the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of other people then it is a variant of [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]].
"Categorism" is a catch-all word for racism, sexism, homophobia, and all such phenomena where individuals are clumped together into a category of
The self-hatred of internalized categorism may cause the character to become a [[Boomerang Bigot]]. However, a boomerang bigot does not ''necessarily'' suffer from any such self-hatred: The character might be too shallow for such emotions or might side with the oppressors for any number of reasons that leave room for feeling good about oneself: [[Greed]], [[Stockholm Syndrome]], even delusions of grandeur. For example, let's say that a certain African-American man believes that black people are lazy criminals and rapists. If he doesn't live like that but attributes it to denying his "true nature", then he's a boomerang bigot. If he doesn't try to get a real job because he's "just a Negro" and/or commits criminal offenses of the drug-related or sex-related kind, saying, "[[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It|I'm a Negro, I can't help it]]", then he's a case of Internalized Racism.
Of course, if a hero is plagued with this psychological problem, it can be a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]/[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Heartwarming]] to see him/her overcome it and learn to some needed self-esteem.
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For other tropes relating to categorism, see [[Stereotype Reaction Gag]] and [[Stop Being Stereotypical]].
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* [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny]]: Internalized hatred of sexual desire, acting out in a self-destructive or abusive manner.
* [[Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality]]: Internalized fear of sexuality, preventing the character from acting out romantically and/or sexually.
▲==== Specific kinds of [[Internalized Categorism]] that are [[Internal Subtrope|Internal Subtropes]]: ====
* Internalized Homophobia: Gays who hate themselves and/or believe they have to have to do destructive things like having lots of unsafe sex with strangers because they have been taught that "that's how gay people are". For the non-internalized version, see [[Heteronormative Crusader]].
* Internalized Sexism: Women or men hating themselves simply for being born into a certain gender, or deny themselves everything that doesn't fit into a very narrow gender role. (This hatred is about a belief that the gender is inferior or evil or "supposed to behave" in a very limited way, not about being
* Internalized Racism: People hating themselves for their genetic ancestry or ethnicity, or reduce themselves to racial stereotypes. For the non-internalized version, see [[Racist Grandma]].
* Internalized Mutiephobia: [[Marvel Universe|Super-powered mutants]] who hate themselves... or goes "Hey, society consider us evil. So I guess we are. Lets just [[Then Let Me Be Evil|accept our role as a bad race]] and call ourselves ''Brotherhood of evil mutants''. (In the [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|silver age]] comics, this group was evil, period. It was later retconned into having suffered from
* Internalized Paraphobia: self-hating fetishists, sadomasochists et cetera. For the non-internalized version, see [[Heteronormative Crusader]]. With the social norms being arbitrary, paraphobia can apply to mainstream heterosexuality as well: ''Any'' mainstream relationship is "deviant" when the norm is [[Lie Back and Think of England]]. For the not-so-internalized version of this kind of paraphobia, see [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny]].
* Normopathy: People who hate themselves for being different from others in any way, and thus hide any skills or talents that might make them stand out from the crowd. Psychologically and narratively, there's not much difference between
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', many of the girls who become [[Magical Girl Warrior|Puella Magi]] [[What Measure Is a Non
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The SM Judge]]'', Magda initially hated herself for being a masochist, ruining her own life as well as making her husband miserable. This turns around early in the movie, but the character had already wasted decades of her life when the story begins.
* ''[[X-Men (
* In ''Human Nature'', the protagonist has fur. She hates herself for it; shaves her entire body every morning (except her head, of course), and punishes herself by chosing a man who is utterly disgusted by female bodily hair.
* In ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'', perhaps the most painful aspect of the story is that the characters never overcome their social conditioning. {{spoiler|The government plans to harvest their internal organs, and they really don't want to die. They spend the story agonizing over their lives being cut short, grasping for straws as they try to find loopholes so they'll be allowed to stay alive a little longer, and feeling guilty about taking out their angst on each other. But none of them ever dare to admit to themselves that the system is unfair, that they actually ''deserve'' to be allowed to live. They have been given the identity of sacrificial victims, and while they hate their place in life, they fail to break free from this imposed image of who and what they are.}}
* Much of the drama in ''[[Secretary]]'' revolves around Edward's internal conflict. He's a sexual sadist who thinks that BDSM is dirty and immoral. This make him very unfair to himself as well as to his submissive, who he [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny|blames for tempting him]]. {{spoiler|Lee eventually manage to snap him out of it.}}
* In ''[[Female Perversions]]'', Eve struggles with this through the entire movie. As the work page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, being pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', some of the meanest people are said to hate themselves because they are squibs — and taking this self-hatred out on young wizards of whom they are jealous. While more ambiguous, it is also possible that Tom Riddle (Voldemort) himself was embarrassed over being a half-blood and that his [[Fantastic Racism]] was partly a overcompensation for this.
* In one of the official collections of shortstories for ''[[
* There are several versions of this in ''[[The Regeneration Trilogy]].'' On one hand are the [[Shell
* ''[[Ender's Game]]'' deals with this after Battle School. He hates himself for what he
* In ''[[
== [[Live
* In the [[Criminal Minds]] episode In Heat, {{spoiler|the unsub was a gay man motivated by the abuse his [[Heteronormative Crusader]] father subjected him to. He became convinced that he was "dirty," and began killing men and stealing their identities to escape his own.}}
* In [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]], {{spoiler|Tara}} turns out to have been abused by her relatives. Among other things, they have tricked her to believe that she's an evil demon when she's actually fully human. Believing herself to be a demon lead her to actions that almost get everyone killed, as she's desperately try to hide her "true" nature from all her friends.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode
** The episode leave it for the audience to decide whether or not Ruko was actually suffering from Internalized Categorism or not and whether or not {{spoiler|forcing him to move to Cardassia}} was the right choice. What you'd consider best for the child depends on whether you consider him to be a Bajoran (his identity and upbringing) or Cardassian (his biological ancestry, including his looks).
** There's also the issue of whether Ruko hated the Cardassians as an empire or as a race. Hating the empire is not a problem for him, as long as he's allowed to stay away from it. (Entering the empire would be quite dangerous, however, since it's a military dictatorship likely to eventually having him executed.) Hating Cardassians as a race would be far more problematic. Since Ruko claim to have no guilt in the atrocities committed by the empire, it is likely that his hatred is of the first kind. But it never gets analyzed in any detail.
** This is further complicated by how you feel about Ruko's adoptive parents. They raised him to consider himself a Bajoran and hate Cardassians. despite the fact that biologically Ruko is a Cardassian. The decision to move him with his biological father becomes even more complicated when you realize that his biological father didn't abandon him. He was taken from him without his knowledge.
== [[Music]] ==
* The song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWNDR9gM2E Broken]" by [[Bad Religion]] brings up the danger of putting people down, that they might start believing it themselves.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Valkyria Chronicles]]. Alicia forms ''none'' of her own ideas about her {{spoiler|newly awakened Valkyria powers}} or how to apply them. Instead, she becomes convinced that she's lost her humanity; not because anyone thinks she has, or is even necessarily afraid that she will, she just assumes that the one other person who has the same ability is evil and so she'll become evil too. This is very obviously not the case, but the [[Idiot Plot|assumption she makes drives the last act of the romance plot.]]
* In [[Slave Maker]], The state religion is homophobic and also hold similar prejudice against bondage. Characters who engage in lesbian sex or bondage will lose morality, thus becoming [[Depraved Homosexual]] or proof that [[Bondage Is Bad]]. However, in the case of lesbianism, this effect is clearly caused by [[Internalized Homophobia]], since only those who believe in the homophobic state religion are affected: Characters who follow "the old gods" or "no gods" do ''not'' lose morality over same-sex sex acts. However, both religions disapprove of bondage - making it less obvious that the morality loss from bondage is also caused by
** Worth noting that bondage is heavily tied to being a Pony girl. This apparently is allowed, even in public, with no shame on either the slave or the slaver. But a Pony girl is socialy considered an animal, with no right to speak, refuse sex (in a setting where slave ''can'' say "No") or wear anything but leather straps. Pony girl are used to pull carts, and there are official riding races. So bondage is shunted on "normal" slaves but mostly allowed for slaves degraded to labor animals.
* In the Circle Tower in ''[[Dragon Age]]'', there is a mage who is completely convinced that all mages are in fact horrible monsters that should never have been allowed to be left alive and prays to the Maker to free her from her cursed existence, as well as all the other mages who are in denial of their evil nature.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Done rather [[
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Zinnia Jones]] talks about [[Internalized Homophobia]] in several episodes, especially [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_xsFId_eI ''coming out''], which is based on the concept that [[Heteronormative Crusader]] antics are designed to ''make'' gay people hate themselves.
* [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[My Little Pony
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